Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 23:44:26 08/19/01
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On August 19, 2001 at 15:10:01, Robert Pawlak wrote: >On August 19, 2001 at 15:02:45, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>[D]rr4k1/5p2/3p2p1/3PP2p/pnP4P/qn2NR2/5PP1/1B1Q2K1 w - - 0 44 >> >>Rxf7!! >> >>Perhaps not all that hard to find, but still very very very very >>very nice. >> >>-- >>GCP > >Yes, not hard to find, but the follow-up was sweet! I wonder what Ferret's eval >was doing during the game. To the naked eye, things looked pretty grim on the >q-side. > >Bob Ferret was never happy, but it thought it was doing not terrible after the exchange sacrifice, which is some bad thinking in my opinion. It was an embarassing game because the program tried to play on the q-side. The position degenerated due to lack of any plan and any counterplay, until at the point where it played e5 it was at perhaps -3.7. It seems to me that e5 was just thrashing, although obviously it was correct thrashing. There was a fail-high on that move. My instinct is that this was the crucial move and not Rxf7. Rxf7 was still about -2. I think it expected Qc1 after that but I am not sure. Once it got to play the queen out it thought it was a draw approximately, or perhaps exactly. Gandalf's score varied from +0.8 to over +3.0. ... Kc8 was the move that caused Ferret to go positive. To those of you who are wondering what I was thinking, I was thinking about throwing up. bruce
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